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There were lots of soldiers stationed in Lisburn, there were a lot in the Thiepval barracks here and there were some stationed in Forthill, where the school is now. The army would have got preference I’m sure. For those of us living in the country it wasn’t so bad because we had our own fowl and we could make ends meet much more easily. But with regards to butter and tea and sugar things like that, that’s what we missed and we were rationed on those things. But I don’t know how the people in the towns managed at all. They all had ration books. I wasn’t married at the time.

We had coupons for sweets; we could only get so many sweets per person. It was really for the children. If you didn’t have the coupons you couldn’t get sweets but we were used to it. At the time money wasn’t as plentiful as it is now so we could manage better in that respect.

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